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Book: Software Engineering at Google Chapter: 11 (Measuring Engineering Productivity)

Summary:

An independent team to measure productivity
Ask if the benefits outweigh costs of measuring productivity? Expected outcome and potential action
meaningful metrics
- Goal (desired end result) Signal (sign that goal has been met) Metrics (measurable signal)
- prevents us overfocusing on what is observable
- acknowledges potential gap between signal and metrics
e.g. readability license (measuring engineers who can produce readable code)